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I am anxious for a mountain lion to show up on a trail camera. I expect it one day soon. I have been reading and researching their expanding range. They were setting camera traps for them in LBL and they suspect they are in the river bottoms of West Tennessee. They have been confirmed in in a few places in the East but I don't know of any in Tennessee.

http://tnwatchablewildlife.org/details2 ... 0-%20Large
 
Don't shoot it. It might have a radio collar under that black mane and the whole world will freak if they find out.

You're not a dentist are you?
 
CAW":2ejrxj4l said:
Don't shoot it. It might have a radio collar under that black mane and the whole world will freak if they find out.
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AIN'T THAT THE TRUTH!

csi-tech":2ejrxj4l said:
I am anxious for a mountain lion to show up on a trail camera. I expect it one day soon. They were setting camera traps for them in LBL and they suspect they are in the river bottoms of West Tennessee.
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I'm actually surprised we haven't yet received multiple official confirmations from some areas of Middle & West TN. I wonder how strong the desire's been to actually confirm one (officially)? But when it happens, IMO, the most probable confirmation(s) will come from somewhere within a few miles either side the TN River, with LBL being an excellent, but not the only likely location.

There have been many solid sightings and credible evidence seen/found by very credible people over the years. Not to say that most sightings/evidence aren't mistaken identity (and/or escaped captives), but many have been credible, just not investigated soon enough or thorough enough to meet the criteria of becoming "official".

I don't believe there are any breeding populations of wild-origin cougar anywhere in Tennessee, not to say there couldn't have been for a short while during the past few decades. But I do believe many young males have roamed thru. What happened to them is anyone's guess.

In the meantime, it remains extremely difficult to get a 2nd sighting or gather any evidence on ANY animal that just wonders thru an area a single time in its entire life cycle. But they will keep coming, and eventually there will be official confirmations. And by the way, a trail cam pic is NOT an official confirmation. It has to be DNA evidence to confirm wild-origin. Any confirmed "sighting" will otherwise be assumed to be an escaped captive.
 
csi-tech":2fl8llmj said:
I am anxious for a mountain lion to show up on a trail camera. I expect it one day soon. I have been reading and researching their expanding range. They were setting camera traps for them in LBL and they suspect they are in the river bottoms of West Tennessee. They have been confirmed in in a few places in the East but I don't know of any in Tennessee.

http://tnwatchablewildlife.org/details2 ... 0-%20Large
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They had a pair of cats in LBL 2002-2003 on the KY side, but DNA from the den confirmed they where cats from South America,
Biologist told me they figured they were dropped off by the owners who got scared after they got big
 
csi-tech":3l5jx8cu said:
I anticipate they will show first in East Tennessee. Near Mt. LaConte. It just seems to be our best habitat.
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In the national park?


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csi-tech":dje0ds9u said:
I anticipate they will show first in East Tennessee. Near Mt. LaConte. It just seems to be our best habitat.
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There's certainly a good chance of a confirmation being made sometime in the National Park, but I'm not so sure that's our "best" habitat for a cougar. They would generally need a lot of deer and rabbits in an area, not just good cover from humans. They are thriving in parts of California in a more metropolitan environment (somewhat like we have around Memphis).

Meanwhile, the confirmations are really stacking up in Southeast Missouri (many less than 50 miles from Northwest TN), Arkansas, and Southern Illinois. And in November 2014, a wild-origin cougar was confirmed in Bourbon County, Kentucky. Had that Bourbon County, KY cat survived, imo, he would have been more likely to have shown up next in the Daniel Boone National Forest and Big South Fork area of TN, rather than the LaConte area of TN/NC.

They seem to be migrating in more from the West and Northwest, with the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers creating a major barrier.
 
Hey "Land Between the Lakes" :)
Didn't you use to post on TNdeer in the past under a different user name?
Reason I ask, many of your recent posts sound very much like a different user name of the past who also lived near and spend much of his time at LBL.
 
There was a momma mountain lion and two cubs on the neighbors farm two years back. His horses were having a fit close by the barn and he opened the door and the Mountain Lion was up in the Loft with the babies. It appeared as if she had just had them. He said he just backed up pushed the door to and left them be. About a year later after this I was fishing in one of his ponds and watched the momma cross the cow pasture into the woods! Scared me to death. Haven't seen her or the babies since then but I suspect it's just a matter of time. My buddy has a trail cam pic of one on his land that's on the other side of the county. I'm located in East, TN.
 

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